How about some Nationals' wedding information. Surely Ryan Zimmerman will be marrying here, as his bride is from Annandale. . .People care very much about celebrity weddings. These are not just celebrities, they are, for more than half the year, locals whom we could spot dining or shopping here.

A: Amy Argetsinger

So true -- if only you could recognize them! Does Ryan Zimmerman get stopped on the street if he's not in uniform? I have no idea -- please, someone tell me if you've run into him. . . . But yes, Nationals wedding season is about to kick off in a big way -- I do believe Michael Morse and his fiance Jessica are the first up, next month, but there are at least six other Nats couples headed down the aisle. Ryan Zimmerman and Heather Downen will be getting married in January according to their wedding registry (though those things are sometimes fed false dates, etc., to lend privacy to VIPs). It's not too late to get them some Waterford place settings, fwiw.

I think I could recognize almost all of the Nationals out of uniform (please don't take that the wrong way--although I could think of at least one I'd like to see out of uniform!). I'll bet most people could recognize Harper & Jayson Werth--he has his own cupcake, after all!

A: Roxanne Roberts

Honestly, I don't think I'd recognize any Nat out of uniform -- but aside from RGIII or Chris Cooley, ditto for the Redskins. I'm your classic casual fan who watches the games but not the players so much. But I'm curious: Which Nat do you want to see naked?

Dinesh D'Souza seriously thought that the ultra conservative Christian college he was heading in NY would be okay with his getting engaged to one woman while still being married to another because, after all, he had been separated from his wife for two years. How can a putatively smart person be so stupid? Why not follow the age old PR rule, "How is this going to look in the paper?"

Dinesh D'Souza expressed surprise that Evangelicals don't approve of getting engaged to someone else while still legally married. Heck, don't you think they even disapprove of DATING while still legally married? And how can D'Souza keep a straight face when saying something like that?

A: Amy Argetsinger

He was doing a lot of justifying: Dinesh D'Souza argued that because he and his wife were separated and planning to get divorced, and because he met the new lady after that separation, and because they were simply "engaged," but that when they shared the hotel room "nothing happened" (I know, TMI!), that it was probably okay. If you have to explain that much to your bosses about your love life, you're probably working in the wrong place.

Not to be political, but after viewing Donald Trump's video--why exactly does it matter than Obama release his college records? A quick google search shows that McCain and GWB did not release their records (although GWB's was leaked I believe). Do you know why this is an issue? Or is Trump just being Trump?

It is not a good catch phrase because the US military actually has more bayonettes now than they did in 1916. 1916 was just prior to the mobilization to WW1 and the US had a very small standing army. A catch phrase based on a lie should not last.

Do the WH logs list every person that enters or that official business only ? For instance if a personal guest of the Obama family comes to the residence or if a super secret meeting takes place that sort of thing wouldn't be public knowledge would it ?

A: Amy Argetsinger

Oh, I'm sure they're hiding some stuff from us. I mean, you put the Salahis in here, and you get nothing. And "Olivia Pope" also came up empty, though on "Scandal" she's there every episode having a passive-aggressive makeout session with President Fitzgerald Grant.

Every election yeah, I have enjoyed how SNL raises its game and gets funny with its political stuff. This season, and particularly last week -- well, they are 10 minutes skits with hardly a laugh. Or i is just me?

I know you'll be getting the, " What're ya wearing to trick or treat this year " slew of questions but I'm wondering what candy to expect if I stop by your houses this year and please don't say you're giving out healthy snacks again...

A: Roxanne Roberts

I never give out healthy snacks. I grew up loving Halloween and want this generation of children to enjoying the guilty pleasure of holiday candy. My son used to come home and count every piece of candy and then rank each by type. I let him pig out a while then put the rest on the shelf and doled it out over time. Feed you kids a healthy diet the rest of the year, but for pete's sake let them have candy (not all of it -- parental rationing is acceptable) on Halloween, Easter and in a Christmas stocking.

Oh, I meant to share this link with you. Roxanne attended McGovern's 90th birthday party and said he seemed healthy and happy to ready to keep on going. But things can move fast when you're 90. Or at any age.

Amazing, but not surprising, that Republicans took this as a dis of the Navy when, of course, it's historically on point. The largest naval engagement in history was the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, in which the U.S. Navy essentially destroyed the Japanese navy. But we were able to do so because of overwhelming air superiority--essentially our airplanes sunk their ships. One reason I know this is because my father was an air combat intelligence officer during that battle. So, basically, battleships have been old hat for about, oh, 70 years.

If Jay Z and Beyonce can't copyright "Blue Ivy," isn't there a real risk of other people trying to profit from their child's name, especially where children's products are involved? That doesn't seem especially fair to me.

It is a false assumption that he is smart but it is now completely clear that he lacks any moral center.

A: Roxanne Roberts

Look, he's not the first and last to have marriage problems -- so I don't think it's fair to say he has no moral center. His huge mistake was finalizing a divorce with his wife before getting into a new relationship -- but that requires maturity and discipline that most people don't have. Being separated for two years opened a door for mayhem and he jumped through it.

W's grades were actually better than John Kerry's, which must be why they were "leaked". As for Obama, as a fellow Harvard Law grad, I can guarantee that they are all A's with a smattering of B's. Grading is very flat in most Ivy law schools.

I just about spurted tea out my nose when I read in the WaPo this AM that Sheldon Adelson "has... undergone a political conversion, from a Massachusetts Democrat who considered Republicans to be the establishment that resisted newcomers like him, to a Nevada Republican..." In other words, at first he was simply jealous of the "haves," but then his social-climbing succeeded, right?

...even have $5 million in liquid cash to give. I always predicted that he would decide not to run is because his financial disclosures would have been a nightmere and would have showed him no where near as liquid as he likes to protray.

A: Roxanne Roberts

Probably but.......sorry, I dozed off. Trump does that to me. Better than warm milk.

This bayonet things is a perfect example of how stupid our political discourse has become. Romney's original comparison between our 2012 and 1916 navies was idiotic. But for people to actually try to defend it by arguing that bayonets are somehow more relevant to today's army than they were four generations ago is inane. The actual number of bayonets in our military is mind-bogglingly irrelevant.

A: Roxanne Roberts

The one good thing: American voters are learning the definition of "bayonet." Not to be confused with "bassinet."

Would Donald Trump be willing to offer $5 million to the charity of Romney's choice if the latter reveals his IRS returns for the past 10 years? I honestly doubt that many likely voters really care about Obama's college transcript, and only a Birther could truly care about his passport application (cuz you know it's going to list him born in Hawaii, so the Birthers will claim that THAT's a lie as well).

Do you think he had something (at least in his own weird little pea brain) and it either fell through or was embaragoed by the Romney campaign? This seems way too anticlimatic and slipshot to have been what he was promoting.

A: Amy Argetsinger

Hey, it got everyone to pay attention to him for 48 hours, so where's the downside there? No, I don't think there was anything more to it than that. If there were anything more to be known about these two guys, we'd probably know it by now.

J-school undergrad, then law school. that's it, no other degrees. I was supporting you--J-school is not a pre-req for journalism, but is extraordinarily helpful for ensuring if you are the wrong fit for journalism!

A: Amy Argetsinger

I've heard the same said about law school and the legal profession, for some unfortunate folks anyway.

I think he's had a singular career. I first became aware of him as the hunky youngish boy toy of Judy Davis in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Then he made all those serious films that established him as a real actor--Michael Collins, Kinsey and, especially, Schindler's List. After all that, he became an action hero in his late 50s. It's like he got his career backward, save for the hunky, youngish part. (Of course, once of his early films was the cartoonish Darkman, but he was sorta unrecognizable in that.)

A: Amy Argetsinger

That's why the new breed of Liam Neeson movies are so awesome, though. Because, while faintly ridiculous, they tap into his incredible reserve of gravitas, creating the most delicious frisson of clashing flavors, like salt and Coke.

My mom is clever. Too clever. We didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid. She would take some of our Halloween candy and hide it in the back of the freezer and then put it in our Christmas stockings. Because you're supposed to have candy in your Christmas stocking. I didn't know this until she told me about five years ago. I was 34.

A: Amy Argetsinger

And still working through those frozen reserves of KitKats, I hope? Your mom is a smart lady.

what will you be this year for Halloween? Or your kids and pets? fairies seem in this year, but think that's true every year.

A: Amy Argetsinger

Fairies, really? I was a fairy princess for Halloween once, but I bet I can't fit into that costume anymore. I don't know, I assume everyone's going dressed as Paul Ryan or the "Gangnam Style" guy -- though I often go to a dorky Washington party where people dress as "sequestration" or whatever.

I was puzzled about the bayonets myself, knowing that they're part of certain rifles. I suspect it started out as "buggy whips" but someone didn't think that sounded very military, and didn't consider that in 1916 most military conveyances were horse-drawn and would have been equipped with buggy whips..

A: Roxanne Roberts

That's the problem with these too-clever-by-half rejoiners; tend to get managed.

I think it's completely fair. He trumpets moral virtue and has built a good deal of his career on it, so the schadenfreude about his antics is completely justified. I haven't sniggered so hard since Tom "I'm a married Catholic so I don't write sex scenes" dumped his wife for a woman half his age that he met on the Internet.

A: Roxanne Roberts

All this is a good reminder about painting people in black and white. good and evil terms. Humans are complicated beings, and you can find yourself on the wrong end of the spotlight. And can I put in a plug -- once again -- for discretion?

My dentist and I have had this conversation. Let kids pig out at Halloween and whatever culturally-appropriate holidays your family celebrates. The rest of the year, make candy a very rare treat. Healthier all around.